Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords

KrazyK writes "Bill Gates has just proclaimed the end of passwords. There's only one drawback - you have to use .Net (well, what else would you expect?). However, the smart card that is at the centre of it - made by Axalto - is still a great bit of technology. How long before we can get an open-source version of this?"

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Frost pist

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

someone hurry up and warez hl2, I'm bored.

Re:Frost pist

[Anonymous Coward]

France is GHEY!

ALL YOUR PASSWORDS ARE BELONG TO US

[Anonymous Coward]

FP!!

Fi rse t P o st

Ha aha ah a a a aa a a

Axalto rocks!
M$ SUCKS!!

End of passwords

[northcat]

Bill Gates has just proclaimed the end of passwords.

In the future we will be using smartcards and our computers will have 64k of memory.

... iButtons Java API... JavaCard API's.... RFid..

[tod_miller]

End of passwords...

You have to use .Net...

To coin a phrase: LOL!

This is typical PHB marketting by Microsoft. This has been around for millions of years. PHB's never remember thier passwords, especially to the pr0n sites they peruse.

Bingo, keep PHB's in your palm by letting them not worry about passwords...

What a loser company... In other news Microsoft invent the internal combustion engine, wheels and leather seats, so we now all don't have to walk around without shoes!

".Net isn't shit, look, you don't even need passwords! You need passwords for linux, but not Wind0wz because it is so l33t!"

Do youself a favour and ignore that story! Oh and for those looking for enterprise level physical authentication measures, try JavaCard, many banks use this technology for thier low end workstation locks, in addition to passwords though - although the password at my local branch is 'sunny1'...

the one fingered typist almost asked my to help her tpye it, thinking the security was some feature to stop her looking at a complicated computer screen, not to keep me out of a lovely inviting way of cancelling out all my uni debt! muahahahahahhahahahahah *cough*

I wouldn't...

Passport was Supposed to Get Us Down to 1

[Greyfox]

But I wouldn't trust that thing farther than I can spit a rat. Billy Boy and his company are not my first choice when I'm worried about security.

It's been pretty easy to add biometrics or hardware keys to your system now. Hell, you can hit thinkgeek and find no less than four devices, although they all appear to only work with Windows. I've seen fingerprint scanners working with Linux at past trade shows too. But of course the idea's not going to catch on until Microsoft "invents" it.